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The Free Educational Software GCompris Comes To Android

Posted by timothy on from the approved-for-all-ages dept.

New submitter xarma writes GCompris is a reference in its category on GNU/Linux but also on Windows. Its development started in 2000 in Gtk+. Last year the development team, willing to address the tablet and PC users from a single code base, took the hard decision to fully rewrite it in Qt Quick. The new version is now developed under the KDE community umbrella. After one year of work, a first release has been shipped on the Android play store. Continuing on its original funding approach, it remains free software but requires a fee on proprietary platforms.

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  1. Re:That is *not* "free" software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In fact, prior to the internet, if you wanted GNU stuff, you paid the FSF $5000 to get tapes with the software you wanted.

    And that's why prior to the mid-1990s, "free" software was exclusively for rich White folks like Linux Torvolds, and when Richie Stillman said he would give away software for free to anyone who could use it, he meant anyone who could afford to pay him for the White Privilege.

    Twenty years later, times have changed! Free software is dirt cheap shit now, only brown Indians and yellow Chinks use it, and White people don't even want to touch the stuff because it smells like fucking curry in fish sauce.